• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.705-724
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• 2009

The two major widely used building design code documents of reinforced concrete structures are the ACI 318-05 and Eurocode for the Design of Concrete Structures EC2. Therefore, a thorough comparative analysis of the provisions of these codes is required to confirm their validity and identify discrepancies in either code. In this context, provisions of flexural computations would be particularly attractive for detailed comparison. The provisions of safety concepts, design assumptions, cross-sectional moment capacity, ductility, minimum and maximum reinforcement ratios, and load safety factors of both the ACI 318-05 and EC2 is conducted with parametric analysis. In order to conduct the comparison successfully, the parameters and procedures of EC2 were reformatted and defined in terms of those of ACI 318-05. This paper concluded that although the adopted rationale and methodology of computing the design strength is significantly different between the two codes, the overall EC2 flexural provisions are slightly more conservative with a little of practical difference than those of ACI 318-05. In addition, for the limit of maximum reinforcement ratio, EC2 assures higher sectional ductility than ACI 318-05. Overall, EC2 provisions provide a higher safety factor than those of ACI 318-05 for low values of Live/Dead load ratios. As the ratio increases the difference between the two codes decreases and becomes almost negligible for ratios higher than 4.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.341-346
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• 2014

대표적인 한계상태설계법은 AASHTO LRFD와 Eurocodes가 있으며, 토목구조물 설계에 폭넓게 적용되고 있다. 그러나 이러한 설계법이 터널설계에 적용될 경우에는 NATM 터널의 라이닝설계와 쉴드터널의 세그먼트 설계에만 제한적으로 적용되고 있다. 최근 유럽에서는 유로코드를 터널설계 전분야에 적용하기 위하여 기준개정(EG12)을 추진하였으나 다른 유로코드(EC2 및 EC3)에 미치는 영향 등을 고려하여 불가피하게 구성하지 않는 것으로 결정되었다. 그러나 여전히 한계상태설계법을 터널설계에 적용하기 위한 연구를 활발히 진행하고 있다. 한계상태설계법은 가까운 장래에 터널을 포함한 토목구조물 설계법의 주류가 될 것이다. 그러므로 Eurocode 7 등 국외 한계상태설계법에 대한 충분한 이해가 중요하며, 국제적인 연구동향을 파악하고 터널설계에 적용하기 위한 연구가 필요하다.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 3th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.1313-1317
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• 2009

Deflections of Reinforced concrete structures must satisfy the permissible values and it is hard to predict the due to uncertainty of deflection of the reinforced concrete structures. Thus, many researchers have suggested a number of experimental equation of deflection against the uncertainty. In a specification, a procedure to evaluate flexure deflection using effective moment of inertia and moment-curvature relation is suggested. ACI offers a method using effective moment of inertia, which has been developed by Branson. Eurocode 2(EC2) suggests a procedure to evaluate deflection of reinforced concrete structure using moment-curvature relation. In this paper, a series of experiments were conducted on the singly reinforced concrete beams which have the same reinforcement ratio and different concrete strength. Therefore, the effect of the concrete strength on the deflection of the beams was analysed. The deflections obtained from the experiment were compared with the deflections calculated with ACI code and EC2.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제73권5호
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• pp.515-527
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• 2020

This paper presents a stress field approach for the shear capacity of stirrup-reinforced concrete beams that explicitly incorporates the contribution of principal tensile stresses in concrete. This formulation represents an extension of the variable strut inclination method adopted in the Eurocode 2. In this model, the stress fields in web concrete consist of principal compressive stresses inclined at an angle θ combined with principal tensile stresses oriented along a direction orthogonal to the former (the latter being typically neglected in other formulations). Three different failure mechanisms are identified, from which the strut inclination angle and the corresponding shear strength are determined through equilibrium principles and the static theorem of limit analysis, similar to the EC-2 approach. It is demonstrated that incorporating the contribution of principal tensile stresses of concrete slightly increases the ultimate inclination angle of the compression struts as well as the shear capacity of reinforced concrete beams. The proposed stress field approach improves the prediction of the shear strength in comparison with the Eurocode 2 model, in terms of both accuracy (mean) and precision (CoV), as demonstrated by a broad comparison with more than 200 published experimental results from the literature.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제17권4호통권77호
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• pp.491-498
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• 2005

본 연구는 온도상승에 따른 압축을 받는 I-형강 보의 플랜지와 웨브의 국부좌굴응력해석을 위한 컴퓨터프로그램과 항복파괴전에 I-형강 보의 플랜지와 웨브에 국부좌굴이 일어나지 않을 최적 폭-두께비를 구할 수 있는 최적알고리즘의 개발이다. 본 연구에서 사용한 고온에 있어서 강재의 응력-변형도 관계식은 EC3(Eurocode3) Part1.2(2000b)를 근거하였다. 본 연구에서 국부좌굴응력과 최적 폭-두께비는 항복응력, 플랜지와 웨브의 국부좌굴계수와 폭-두께비 영향을 고려하여 해석하였다. 그리고 본 연구의 컴퓨터 프로그램을 적용한 설계 예를 들었다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제5권2_3호
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• pp.127-140
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• 2005

Procedures given in Eurocode 3 Part 1.1 (EN 1993-1-1) for design of the main types of structural member under given systems of loading are presented and described. Whereas some of these e.g. the procedure for axially loaded columns, are little changed from the early concept that appeared more than 25 years ago in the European Recommendations and have subsequently been adopted in many other steel codes of the world, others such as the interaction formulae for beam-columns are new, with aspects of the provisions still under development. For each type of member the basis of the procedure is described and some comparative comments made.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.761-768
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• 2010

철근콘크리트 구조물에 균열이 발생하면 균열과 균열 사이 단면의 콘크리트는 부착에 의해 인장력을 전달하게 되고 이에 따라 철근의 변형은 줄어든다. 이러한 현상을 인장증강효과라 하고, 처짐 및 균열폭과 같은 사용한계상태의 검증에 중요한 역할을 한다. 그러나 균열 사이의 복잡한 변형률 분포 때문에 사용성한계상태의 검증에 어려움이 따르므로 일반적으로 평균 변형률을 사용하여 처짐과 균열폭을 산정하고 있다. EC2에서는 1차식 및 2차식 형태의 인장 증강효과를 사용하여 평균 곡률을 산정하고 이로부터 처짐량을 산정하고 있다. 이 연구에서는 휨부재에 대하여 인장증강효과에 대한 다양한 모델을 적용하여 처짐과 균열폭을 산정하고 EC2와 콘크리트구조설계기준에 의한 결과와 비교하였다. 해석 결과 2차식 형태의 인장증강효과를 일관되게 적용함으로써 실험 결과에 더 부합된 결과를 얻을 수 있었고 해석의 일관성도 도모할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.65-80
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• 2014

This paper reports on the development of a minimum cost design model and its application for obtaining economic designs for reinforced High Strength Concrete (HSC) T-sections in bending under ultimate limit state conditions. Cost objective functions, behavior constraint including material nonlinearities of steel and HSC, conditions on strain compatibility in steel and concrete and geometric design variable constraints are derived and implemented within the Conjugate Gradient optimization algorithm. Particular attention is paid to problem formulation, solution behavior and economic considerations. A typical example problem is considered to illustrate the applicability of the minimum cost design model and solution methodology. Results are confronted to design solutions derived from conventional design office methods to evaluate the performance of the cost model and its sensitivity to a wide range of unit cost ratios of construction materials and various classes of HSC described in Eurocode2. It is shown, among others that optimal solutions achieved using the present approach can lead to substantial savings in the amount of construction materials to be used. In addition, the proposed approach is practically simple, reliable and computationally effective compared to standard design procedures used in current engineering practice.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.73-81
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• 2019

The high-temperature properties of mild steels were studied by comparing the test results of Kwon and the yield strength, tangent modulus predicted by the design provisions of ASCE and Eurocode(EC3). The column strengths for steel members at high temperatures were determined by the elastic and inelastic buckling strengths according to elevated temperatures. The material properties at high temperatures should be used in the strength evaluations of high temperature members. The buckling strengths obtained from the AISC, EC3 and approximate formula proposed by Takagi et al. were compared with ones calculated by the material nonlinear analysis using the EC3 material model. The newly simplified formulas for yield stress, tangent modulus, proportional limit and buckling strength which were proposed through a comparative study of the material properties and buckling strengths. The buckling strengths of proposed formulas were approximately equivalent to ones obtained from the formulas of Takagi et al. within 4%. They were corresponded to the lower bound values among the buckling strengths calculated by the design formulas and inelastic buckling analysis.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.551-565
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• 2019

A total of 36 carbon steel and stainless steel bolted connections subjected to shear loading at different strain rates was experimentally investigated. The connection specimens were fabricated from carbon steel grades 1.20 mm G500 and 1.90 mm G450, as well as cold-formed stainless steel types EN 1.4301 and EN 1.4162 with nominal thickness 1.50 mm. The connection tests were conducted by displacement control test method. The strain rates of 10 mm/min and 20 mm/min were used. Structural behaviour of the connection specimens tested at different strain rates was investigated in terms of ultimate load, elongation corresponding to ultimate load and failure mode. Generally, it is shown that the higher strain rate on the bolted connection specimens, the higher ultimate load was obtained. The ultimate loads were averagely 2-6% higher, while the corresponding elongations were averagely 8-9% higher for the test results obtained from the strain rate of 20 mm/min compared with those obtained from the lower strain rates (1.0 mm/min for carbon steel and 1.5 mm/min for stainless steel). The connection specimens were generally failed in plate bearing of the carbon steel and stainless steel. It is shown that increasing the strain rate up to 20 mm/min generally has no effect on the bearing failure mode of the carbon steel and stainless steel bolted connections. The test strengths and failure modes were compared with the results predicted by the bolted connection design rules in international design specifications, including the Australian/New Zealand Standard (AS/NZS4600 2018), Eurocode 3 - Part 1.3 (EC3-1.3 2006) and North American Specification (AISI S100 2016) for cold-formed carbon steel structures as well as the American Specification (ASCE 2002), AS/NZS4673 (2001) and Eurocode 3 - Part 1.4 (EC3-1.4 2015) for stainless steel structures. It is shown that the AS/NZS4600 (2018), EC3-1.3 (2006) and AISI S100 (2016) generally provide conservative predictions for the carbon steel bolted connections. Both the ASCE (2002) and the EC3-1.4 (2015) provide conservative predictions for the stainless steel bolted connections. The EC3-1.3 (2006) generally provided more accurate predictions of failure mode for carbon steel bolted connections than the AS/NZS4600 (2018) and the AISI S100 (2016). The failure modes of stainless steel bolted connections predicted by the EC3-1.4 (2015) are more consistent with the test results compared with those predicted by the ASCE (2002).